Box-fastener



(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 1. G. F. SUMNER & E. MOSER.

BOX PASTENER.

Patented Nov. 22,

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G. F. SUMNER & E. MOSER.

BOX FASTENER.

Patented Nov. 22, 1887.

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GEORGE F. SUMNER A ND EUGENE MOSER, OF MOUNT CLEMENS, MICHIGAN.

BOX FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION form ng part of Letters Patent No. 373.758, dated November 22, 1887.

Application filed April l3, 1857.

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Be it known that we, GEORGE F. SUMNER and EUGENE MosER, ofMou nt Clemens, county of Macolnb, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Box-Fasteners; and we declare the following to be a lull, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention consists of the combinations of devices and appliances hereinafter specitied, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shipping'box embodying our invention. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a separate view of the retaining-clamp. Fig. 4 is a variation in which the clamp is all made in a single piece. Fig. 5 illustrates dili'erent methods for temporarily holding the hinged clamp in place for ship ment. Fig. (5 illustrates a variation.

Goods-such as bottles, eggs, and thelikeare shipped in large quantities in packages, and provision is frequently made [or a certain amount allowed to the purchaser upon the return of the package. In use, however, by the ordinary method of nailing the top boards or cover to the box, it usually transpires, by the driving of the nails or the opening of the box, that the boards through which the nails are driven and those into which they are set are splitand damaged to such an extent that the value of the package is greatly impaired.

It is the object of this invention to provide means for clamping the top or covering boards into place without the use of any nails, and yet admit of the ready release of the said clamp or clamps in order to open the box.

In carrying out our invention, A represents an ordinary box.

B B B representthe covering boards, which constitute the top of the box.

0 represents our improved clamps for holding the boards in place. These clamps consist of a strap, 6, adapted to extend over the tops of the boards, and with ears projecting down upon the side and hinged by a screw or nail at 0''. An angle-plate, c", is riveted to the strap or made to constitute a part of the same,

Serial No. 234,663. (No model.)

Such tcinporaryfastso as to permit of its being turned down, as

shown in Fig. 2, so as to release the boards B. That clamp which is stationary at the other end of the box may be so fixed by two or more nails or screws passing through the strap 0, as

shown in Fig. l, or it may be fastened both at 0 this point on the strap and at the end of the box through the depending flange of the angle plate. So, also, if desired, the angleplate on this permanent clamp need not project down any farther than sufficient to prevent endwise shifting of the boards B. So, also, at the temporary clamp designed to be turned down about the pivots c, the temporary fastenings might be at the end portions of the strap, as shown in Fig. 6, in which the screw D is employed, 8o

grooved or flattened at d, to permit it to enter the slot (2 in the strap, after which a quarterturn of the screw will fasten the strap securely.

It is apparent that a package of this charac-- ter may be used time and again without any injury either to the box proper or its coveringboards.

This appliance is adapted for use with ordinary loose box-boards, such as are usually employed for box-covers, and without the mess o sity of fastening the boards together. We would also have it understood that a box may have but one of these hinged clamps C, the other one being in the nature of a permanent clamp or strap, with a depending angle-piece 5 to engage the ends of the boards.

hat we claim is 1. The combination, with a packingbox, of a clamp, 0, having ears 0 c, pivoted at c c, and an angle-plate, 0 provided with elongated slots, and the screw-hooks c" c", for securing said angle-plate to the box, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a packing-box, of

a clamp having ears 0 0 and angle-plates c 1 said clamp being permanently secured to one end of the box, a similar clamp pivoted to the other end of the box and provided with elongated slots formed in its angle plate, and the screw-hooks c c, for engaging saidislots and securing the pivoted clamp to the box, suhstantially as described.

tion in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE F. SUMNER. EUGENE MOSER.

In testimony whereof we sign this specifica- 

